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Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm

Everyone’s worked with someone who is never responsible for any of his / her own issues at work – they are always the victim of someone else’s special treatment or malice. In Terminated, Simon Wood takes that obnoxious co-worker to a dangerous and deadly level. When Gwen Ferris, recently promoted to Manager of Quality Assurance on her own merits over Stephen Tarbell, gives Tarbell a poor performance review, he reacts unreasonably. He begins a campaign of intimidation and terror, encompassing her job, her family, and her life.

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Start: 10:00 am
End: 7:00 pm

New Books On Sale June 15th

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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Mysterious Galaxy's Book Discussion Group meets on Wednesday nights at
the store. (Tuesdays during part of the summer.) Participation is open to all
readers; readers need not have completed a particular book to attend.

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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

A Bad Day for Sorry, Sophie Littlefield’s novel introducing the extremely self-reliant Stella Hardesty, sewing shop owner and friend to abused women in need, was an Edgar nominee for Best First Novel. Stella is back in A Bad Day for Pretty,  working to help clear her friend, Nebuchadnezzar Donovan, of the accusation of murder when a tornado unveils a corpse at the county fairground. Sophie also has new novel Banished coming for young adults this fall. Sophie visits on Friday, June 18, at 7:00 PM, with partner in crime Juliet Blackwell.

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Secondhand Spirits, Juliet Blackwell’s novel introducing witch Lily Ivory and her Haight-Ashbury vintage clothing store, was a hit among mystery and urban fantasy readers alike last year. In A Cast-Off Coven, Lily is asked to put her talents to work when the San Francisco School for the Arts reports strange disturbances. Lily is anticipating former dead bodies, but finds a recent corpse at the foot of a supposedly haunted staircase.

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Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm

Local author Shawna Lynn has a personal history that is as intriguing as a novel. At age 29 she suffered an illness that caused her to lose her memory. Today this wife and mother is not only a local author, but also working on degrees in literature and psychology. Lessons from an Evil Mind, her first suspense novel, examines issues of relentless evil, and determined survival, as a former captive works to evade recapture and regain her spirit of hope. Shawna Lynn visits Mysterious Galaxy on Saturday, June 19, at 2:00 PM.

 

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